Definition of "hatchet-faced" [hatchet-faced]

• Having a narrow face with sharp features (adjective)

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• "The hatchet-faced apparatchiks crumpled into tears as she explained why she was in such a hurry to visit Siberia."
• "Always hovering nearby is his private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, a hatchet-faced former SAS officer who looks as though he would rather be cracking skulls than carrying the bouquets thrust into the prince's hands on walkabouts."
• "To most of the general public he is the archetypal hatchet-faced 'nasty' Tory."